2006 weblog awards -- the bloggies

Millions of blogs.Thousands of nominees.151 finalists.Thirty winners. visit this site and cast your vote for the best blog in 2006. Deadline is January 10, 2006. Don't forget if you don't email tis post to at least 10 people you know (no spammers) within 45 minutes of first seeing it -- you will never be able to have sex again, all your friends will die, your breasts will turn into oversized raisins , and everyoyher freakish doomsday phobia that might work for you. stand up and count (as many times as you want ;) )

The PostSecret Book will be released tomorrow

The PostSecret Book will be released tomorrow (Nov. 29th). First week sales are critical. Please buy a book or two this week to support the projec

The PostSecret book is a hardcover with 288 pages published by Harper Collins/Regan Books. All the postcard images are in color and many have never been seen before.

TAG Cloud beta

TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number of RSS feeds you specify, extracts keywords from the content and lists them according to prevalence within the RSS feeds. Clicking on the tag's link will display a list of all the article abstracts associated with that keyword.

It's a list of keywords taken from the news feeds you specify. Larger fonts indicate a higher prevalence for an individual keyword. Using Cascading Style Sheets, you can customize almost every aspect of your TagClouds to make it match your website. Of course, we provide a nice default set of styles out of the box.

Coming soon : Rebloging Anaїs Nin from Tehran

when Anaїs Nin's Diary: 1931-34 appeared in the Spring of 1966, Karl Shapiro, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, wrote in the Book Week: "For a generation the literary world on both sides of the Atlantic has lived with the rumor of an extraordinary diary. Earlier readers of the Manuscript dicussed it with breathtaking superlatives as a work that would take it's place with great revelations of literature. A significant section of this diary is at last in print and it appears that the great claims made for it are justified."

Keep posted for the blog dedicated to rebloging Nin. Send me an email if you want to be one of the reblogers.

justcurio.us

justcurio.us is an anonymous question and answer system, open to anyone, with one simple rule: to ask a question, you must first answer someone else's question. Question yields answer yields question. Strangers helping strangers.
The questions can be about anything the best Beatles album, your saddest moment, your biggest regret, your best childhood memory, the meaning of life, whether you should break up with your girlfriend, the best crepe place in Paris, the best cure for loneliness. Anything ....at all. This is our chance to lean on each other, to look to a stranger for help, to discover what other people think.
justcurio.us is entirely confidential, allowing anyone to ask and answer questions with complete anonymity. So, what's on your mind?

the hansbernhardblog

this one is strangely fascinating--visit hans.

Handbook for bloggers and cyber-dissidents published by Reporters Without Borders

"Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression."

Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help bloggers, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles. Below are links to the English, Farsi, and Arabic versions of the Handbook:

نسخه بالعربیه Enter فارسی

Google's Entry into the Blog Searching World

Google has released a blog search service, in beta, it searches blogs with feeds, not blogs as such. We can subscribe to search results as feeds. But the feeds can be messy or broken. Users can sort results by relevance or by date.
Google's entering an already developed market, with leaders like Technorati. But Google's offering has fewer services, in comparison, so far. It's narrow in focus - no tags, no graphs, no categories. Are those on the way? Will the Web 2.0 services market heat up with innovations in response?

Is the murderblog a genre now?

Murderblog from Idaho

Blogging the Fifth Nail is the journal of an accused murderer, Joseph Edward Duncan III.
I wish I could be more honest about my feelings, but those demons made sure I'd never be able to do that. I might not know if it matters, but just in case, I am working on an encrypted journal that is hundreds of times more frank than this blog could ever be (that's why I keep it encrypted). I figure in 30 years or more we will have the technology to easily crack the encryption (currently very un-crackable, PGP) and then the world will know who I really was, and what I really did, and what I really thought.
A post modern version of Capote's "In Cold Blood" narrated in the first person--chilling reflection of our times. HT